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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Sci. Phila., viii, 1839, 156 (n. w. United States).—Pzanopy, Rep. Om. 
Mass., 1839, 371.—Viaors, Zool. Voy. ‘Blossom,’ Birds, 1839, 28.—GIRAUD, 
Birds Long Is., 1844, 259.—Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Grall., 1844, 95.— 
Lempeye, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 1850, 90.—ReicHENBACH, Grallatores, 
1850, pl. 76, figs. 572.—Casanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 350 (Cuba).—Cassin, 
in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 740; Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 
xiv, 1862, 321 (California)—Barrp, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 547.— 
Moorg, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 64 (Belize, Brit. Honduras).—Sciatzr 
and Savin, Ibis, 1859, 230 (Belize; Guatemala); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 
1873, 456 (coast Honduras; Guatemala); 1878, 141 (Santa Rosa, Ecuador).— 
Coorer and Sucxey, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, pt. ii, 1860, 245 (Shoal- 
water Bay, Washington, spring and fall; San Francisco, California, March).— 
Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 308 (Cuba).—Gunp.acH, Journ. 
fiir Orn., 1861, 340 (Cuba); 1862, 84 (Cuba); 1875, 320 (Cuba); 1878, 161,188 
(Porto Rico); Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1866, 353; Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. 
Nat., vii, 1878, 368 (Porto Rico).—BuaxistTon, Ibis, 1862, 9 (Saskatchewan); 
1863, 134 (Saskatchewan).—VERRILL, Proc. Essex Inst., iii, 1862, 158 (Oxford 
Co., Maine).—Atten, Proc. Essex Inst., iv, 1864, 87 (Massachusetts); Bull. 
Mus. Comp. Zool., ii, 1871, 356 (e. Florida, winter).—ScHLeceE, Mus. Pays- 
Bas, v, no. 27 (Scolopaces), 1864, 23.—Satvin, Ibis, 1865, 190 (Guatemala).— 
Hoy, An. Rep. Smithson. Inst. for 1864 (1865), 438 (Missouri).—DreEssEr, 
Ibis, 1866, 39 (Texas).—McItwrarra, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1866, 93 (Hamil- 
ton, Ontario).—Cougs, Ibis, 1866, 269 (s. California); Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 
xii, 1868, 123 (South Carolina); Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1868, 296 (Essex Co., 
Mass.); Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xxiii, 1871, 32 (Fort Macon, North Caro- 
lina); Check List, 1878, no. 428; Birds Northwest, 1874, 292 (habits, etc.); 
Bull. U. 8. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 641 (Pembina, North 
Dakota).—LawreEnce, Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 1867, 294 (vicinity New York 
City); ix, 1869, 210 (Merida, Yucatan); Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 308 
(Mazatlan, Sinaloa, in winter, a few in summer); Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 
1876, 47 (San Mateo, Oaxaca, Aug., Feb.).—Brown, Ibis, 1868, 425 (Van- 
couver Island).—Turnsui, Birds East. Penn. and N. J., 1869, 41 (Phila. 
ed., 32).—Trrere, Proc. Essex Inst., vi, 1871, 119 (Minnesota); Proc. Bost. 
Soc. N. H., xv, 1873, 241 (southern Iowa).—Snow, Birds Kansas, 1873, 10.— 
Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 1875, 446 (Mass. Maine coast).—HEN- 
sHaw, Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 457 (San Luis Lakes, e. Colorado; 
Oct. 1).—Taczanowsx1, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, 748 (Santa Lucia, 
Peru); Orn. du Pérou, iii, 1886, 379.—Merrutt (J. C.), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 
i, 1878, 162 (Fort Brown, Texas).—Maynarp, Birds E. N. Am., 1879, 396.— 
Roserts and Benner, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 18 (Grant Co., Minne- 
sota, breeding; measurements, etc.).—Rmeway, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., iii, 
1880, 200 (Cat. N. Am. Birds, no. 543),—Batrp, Brewer, and Riweway, 
Water Birds N. Am., i, 1884, 255.—Drew, Auk, li, 1885, 18 (e. Colorado).— 
AgeErsBorG, Auk, ii, 1885, 286 (s. e. South Dakota).—Brruerscu, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. Lond., 1885, 119 (Santa Rosa, Ecuador).—AMERICAN ORNITHOLO- 
‘aists’ Union, Check List, 1886, and 2nd ed., 1895, no. 249; 3rd ed., 1910, 
p. 118.—Evermann, Auk, iii, 1886, 91 (Ventura Co., California); v, 1888, 
349 (Carroll Co., Indiana).—Srron, Auk, iii, 1886, 152 (near Winnipeg, and 
plains of Souris River, Manitoba, summer resident).—Scort, Auk, iii, 1886, 
386 (San Pedro River, Arizona); vi, 1889, 157 (Gulf coast Florida); ix, 1892, 
212 (Caloosahaitchie River, Florida).—Durcusr, Auk, iii, 1886, 436 (Long 
Island records).—Wet1s, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 628 (Grenada).— 
TownsEND, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 198 (Humboldt Bay, California, 
resident; breeding?).—Cory, Auk, iv, 1887, 316 (West Indian localities and 
